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WI'NDMILL. A 'No 352,875. Patented Nov. '16,/18862 N. PETERS, PhnlwL'lmgrnpl'lefE Washington. 11C

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A. A. KINNEY.`

WINDMILL.

N0.352,875. PtenwlNov.l 16, 1886.1

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALPHEUS A. KINNEY, OF PARIS, NEBRASKA.

WINDMILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part 'of Letters Patent-No. 352,875, dated November 16, 18d6.

Y .Application flied July 2,1886. Serial No.206.925. (No model.) l

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that I, ALrnEUs A. KINNEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Paris, in the county of Sherman and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inVindmills; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- 1 Figure l is a perspective view of my improved Windmill. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a rear view of the Fig. 4 is a front view of the same. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one section of the wheel.y Fig. 6 is a top View of the mill;l

windmills having a wheel journaled to revolve in a vertical plane, and having the vanes arindicates the frame or tower of the mill,which tower is of the construction usually found in windmills of this class, and the upper end of this tower is provided with a platform, B, from the center of which project two upright posts, C C,which are connected at their upper ends by a plate or casting, D, formed with up-y wardly-projecting pairs of lips E E, arranged in a circle around a central aperture, rollers G being journaled between the said lips, forming a rest for the turn-table H, to which the wheel and guide-vane are attached.

The turn-table H is provided with a downwardly-'proj ecting central sleeve, I, which projects through.. the central perforation in the casting supporting the turn-table, the sleeve being journaled in the said perforation, and the lower end of the sleeve is journaled in a bearing, J, secured between the upright posts.

The turn-table is provided with a laterallyprojecting hollow arm or bearing, K, for the wheel-shaft L, and with a diametrically oppositely-projecting arm, M, to which the guidevane N is secured, and an arched piece, O, extends from the inner end of thebearing for the shaft to the arm carrying the vane, extending over the upper open end of the sleeve'of the turn-table, having a bearing, P, concentric with 'the said sleeve. The inner end of the wheel-shaft is formed into a crank, Q, and a short pitman, R, is pivoted to this crank and to the pump-rodS, the upper end of the said rod sliding in the bearing ofthe arched piece. The wheel is composed of a hub or spider, ".l, having a number of radiating arms, U, formed with perforated lips VV at their ends, in which lips the trunnions W W, at the ends of transverse bars X, are journaled.

l The inclined vanes Y are secured in inclined notches Z in the rear side of these transverse bars, and are connected at the inner ends by a transverse notched piece, A', and the forward vanes, B', are secured in. notches C' in the transverse bars and pieces, in planes at right langles to the faces of the bars.

Blocks D' are pivoted with trunnions E' at their ends between the arms, near the inner ends of the same, and are formed with transverse perforations F at their middles, through which perforations pass rods G', having arms H' pivoted to their outer ends, the said arms being pivoted at their outer ends to the crossbars of the vane-sections, slightly above the line of the trunnions of the same. The inner ends of the rods in thepivoted blocksare pivoted to a sleeve, I', sliding upon the wheel-shaft, and this sleeve is formed with a circumferential groove, J', in which ts a collar, K', to which two rods, L' L', are secured, with their outer ends sliding in horizontal bearings M M' at the sides of the bearing for the shaft. 'The inner ends of these rods are pivoted to the ends of a bifurcated bell-crank, N', pivoted upon the inner side of the portion of the arched piece nearest to the guide-vane, and the upper end of a vertical rod, O', is pivoted to the ICO outer end sliding in a groove, R', in the inner side of a ring or collar, S', sliding upon the sleeve and having the sleeve turning within it. The upper end of a bar, T, is secured to this collar, and the lower end of the bar is pivoted to one end of a lever,U, pivoted upon the side of the tower, and a bar, V', is p'ivoted with its upper end to the other end oi' this lever, and has its lower end pivoted to a lever, W', pivoted at one end to one of the corner posts of the tower, and having a weight, X', sliding upon it outside of the pivotal point of the vertical bar.

It will be seen that when the wheel is revolved the crank upon the wheelshaft will reciprocate the pitman and the pumpaod, the upper end of which reciproeates in the bearing in the arched piece, and the lower end of the pump-rod may be directly connected to the piston-rodof a pump,or the reciprocating motion of the pump-rod may be conveyed to a more distant place or be converted into a rotary motion, as desired. Vhen the force of the wind increases, the wheel-sections will have their outer portions tilted rearward, which will cause the arms pivoted to them to tilt the outer ends of the rods in the pivoted blocks forward, sliding thesleeve upon the shaft inward and depressing the rod in the sleeve, which will depressthe collar upon the sleeve and the bar attached to it, causing the lower vertical bar to be raised, raising the weight upon the lever, and when the force of the wind again decreases the weight will depress the lever and reverse the former motion, tilting the wheel-sections to offer their full surface to the wind, the see-l tions when tilted back only oiering a slight surface for the action of the wind. The forward set of vanes in the wheel will cut the wind and direct it toward the rear inclined set ofvanes, and this arrangement will be found v of a great advantage in astrong wind,th e vanes and rod being raised and lowered, and also of the sleeve being turned within the collar, the operation of one interfering in no manner with the operation of the other.

Having th us described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. In a windmill, the combination of a frame and two sets of vanes, the 'front set being at right angles to the face of the wheel, and the rear set being at an angle to the front set and having their front edges in aline with the rear edges of the front set. e

2. In awindmill, the combination of radiating arms upon the wheel-shaft, wheel-sections of vanos secured to crossbars provided with trunnions at their ends pivoted in lips upon the arms, a sliding adj ustingsleeve upon the wheel-shaft, blocks pivoted at their ends between the inner ends of the radiating arms and having rods sliding in perforations in the `middles of the blocks and pivoted to the sleeve with .their inner ends, and arms pivoted with their inner ends to the outer ends of the rodsand with their outer ends to the outer portions of the wheel-sections, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

3. In a windmill having a downwardly-projecting sleeve journaled in the supporting' frarne and formed with a vertical slot in its side, theA combination of a governing-rod having a headed bolt projecting through and sliding in the slot, a collar upon the sleeve and having a groove in its inner side for the head ofthe bolt, and a handle for sliding it `up and down upon the sleeve, as and for the purpose shown and set forth. i

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALPHEUS A. KINNEY. Vitnesses:

J. L. Gori, C. WOLF. 

